Why don't the Desktop Enviroment change the theme for ALL the aplications?

[cURIOUSgEORGE]

Why don't the Desktop Environment change the theme for ALL the applications?

I'm just curious too know, why doesn't E17 change the look of VLC (For example) ? And other applications as well... Why? And, is there a way to fix that?

(I know that there are skins for VLC)...... but it's not just that, it's many apps.

[curaga]

Because they are different components. Apps use themes of their toolkits.

[cURIOUSgEORGE]

Thanks Curaga, gotcha.

[vinnie]

Yep, the conf of gtk is in /home/tc/.gtkrc-2.0 (gimp, pidgin...) and conf of qt is in /home/tc/.config/Trolltech,conf (vlc, qps...)

[jls]

U can change the gtk2 theme & the icon theme in e17 via it's configuration panel

[vinnie]

where for accuracy?